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Australia announced two years ago that it wouldn't resettle any refugees registered with the UN in Indonesia after July 1, 2014.

It also took 450 refugees from Indonesia in the 2014-15 financial year, 150 fewer than the previous two years.

The policy stopped Australia from helping out southeast Asian neighbours last year during an asylum seeker boat stand-off crisis involving Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia.

The fate of 1000 Rohingya asylum seekers from Myanmar (Burma), who landed in Aceh last year, is also likely to be discussed at the meeting.

Indonesia has only agreed to shelter the asylum seekers until May this year.

Also on the agenda is how countries can better exchange information during emergency migration crises, through the use of special hotlines between foreign ministries as well as sharing biometric data or facial images and fingerprints.

A controversial deal European Union leaders struck with Turkey, intended to halt illegal migration flows in return for financial and political rewards for Ankara, is also expected to be discussed.

Ms Bishop will meet with her Indonesian counterpart Retno Marsudi for bilateral talks ahead of the regional forum.

There will be thirteen ministers at the Bali Process talks including from the Netherlands, New Zealand, Fiji, Japan and Afghanistan.